Edward Zajec Collected Works 1984 – 2004

DVD – 60 minutes
Released – 2010

Price $35.00
Institutional price: $110.00


This collection of 12 works by Edward Zajec, produced bythe oko;uho: Institute for Art and Technology in Maribor (SI) in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (HR), aims to showcase his contribution to time-variant color composition-Orphics. Throughout these two decades Zajec’s focus was on developing new ideas and computer-based techniques for the articulation of color in time, seeking a visual language that would merge the fluid qualities of sound with the radiant nature of light.

Born in Trieste, Italy (’38), Edward Zajec studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Ljubljana (SI), and at Ohio University (MFA ’68). During the same year, he started working with computers, while teaching at Carleton College in Northfield (MN). In 1980 he wrote the curriculum and established the computer graphics laboratory at Syracuse
University. His work has been shown at museums and art venues around the world. Most recently he was the subject of several retrospectives, at the Centre for Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (SI), at the WRO Art Center in Wroclaw (PL), at the oko;uho: Center for Art & Technology in Maribor ( SI), and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (HR).

This collection includes:

zajec_chromas Chromas (1984-8, music by Giampaolo Coral, “Seconda Sonata”; Pianist Corrado Gulin, four compositions 5:00 each)
zajec_crgb  Composition in Red, Green and Blue (1989, music by Tibor Szemzo, “Water-Wonder”, 5:00)
zajec_crg  Composition in Red and Green (1990, music by Giampaolo Coral, “Modulazioni”; Pianists Beatrice Zonta, Vesna Zuppin, 5:13)
zajec_sonatine  Sonatine (1992, music by Maurice Ravel, “Sonatine, Temp de Minuet”; Pianist Aleksander Rojc, 1994)
zajec_nocturne  Nocturne (1994, music by Erik Satie, “Premier Nocturne”; Pianist Ida Trebicka, 4:40)
zajec_5ieme  5ieme Gnossienne (1996, Erik Satie, “5ieme Gnossienne”; Pianist Aleksander Rojc, 4:00)
zajec_orphics61  Orphics 6.1 (1994, music by Bela Bartok: “VIII. Bagatelle”; Pianist Aleksander Rojc, 2:40)
zajec_orphics62  Orphics 6.2 (2000, music by Claude Debussy ” La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin”; Pianist Aleksander Rojc, 4:40)
zajec_glamor glAmor (2004, music by Edward Zajec, 6:20)

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